Keel vs. Rib

Keelverb

To cool; to skim or stir.

Keelverb

To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

Keelverb

To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

Keelnoun

A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

Keelnoun

A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.

Keelnoun

Fig.: The whole ship.

Keelnoun

A barge or lighter, used on the Tyne for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.

Keelnoun

The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

Keelnoun

A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

Keelnoun

In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aëroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.

Keelnoun

the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly

Keelnoun

one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability

Keelverb

walk as if unable to control one's movements;

Keelnoun

the lengthwise timber or steel structure along the base of a ship, supporting the framework of the whole, in some vessels extended downwards as a ridge to increase stability.

Keelnoun

a ship

Keelnoun

a ridge along the breastbone of many birds to which the flight muscles are attached; the carina.

Keelnoun

a prow-shaped pair of petals present in flowers of the pea family.

Keelnoun

a flat-bottomed boat of a kind formerly used on the Tyne and Wear Rivers for loading ships carrying coal.

Keelverb

(of a boat or ship) turn over on its side; capsize

Keelverb

(of a person or thing) fall over; collapse

Keel

The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element on a vessel. On some sailboats, it may have a hydrodynamic and counterbalancing purpose, as well.

Ribnoun

Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum

Ribnoun

A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something

Ribnoun

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones

Ribnoun

(nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull

Ribnoun

Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength

Ribnoun

(architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

Ribnoun

(knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth

Ribnoun

(botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf

Ribnoun

A teasing joke

Ribnoun

A single strand of hair.

Ribnoun

A stalk of celery.

Ribnoun

(archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.

Ribverb

To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.

Ribverb

To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.

Ribverb

To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

Ribverb

(transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

Ribnoun

One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

Ribnoun

That which resembles a rib in form or use.

Ribnoun

The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.

Ribnoun

In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.

Ribnoun

Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

Ribnoun

A wife; - in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.

Ribverb

To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.

Ribverb

To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

Ribnoun

support resembling the rib of an animal

Ribnoun

any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)

Ribnoun

cut of meat including one or more ribs

Ribnoun

a teasing remark

Ribnoun

a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant

Ribnoun

a projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural

Ribverb

form vertical ribs by knitting;

Ribverb

subject to laughter or ridicule;

Rib

In vertebrate anatomy, ribs (Latin: costae) are the long curved bones which form the rib cage, part of the axial skeleton. In most tetrapods, ribs surround the chest, enabling the lungs to expand and thus facilitate breathing by expanding the chest cavity.